Time To Offend A Feminist! (via NoOneOfAnyImport)

Is National Offend a Feminist Week over? I suppose so. Nonetheless, I found this post interesting. So I reblogged it anyway.

The things you miss when you fail to make the rounds. Lesson learned. At least two days are left. This is the third annual Offend A Feminist Week, created by none other than Rule 5 creator Stacy McCain. His inaugural post decimates decades of feminist construct in the space of six paragraphs. My favorite bit: Nothing so offends a feminist as the idea that somewhere there might be a woman who considers it an honor and privilege to be “Just a Mo … Read More

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Because we live in the midst of The Culture War, all we have to do to offend someone is state a differing opinion. Thus, giving offense has become too easy to be sporting. Nonetheless, we all understand the motivation, vengeance.

With the implication that what they do is relatively worthless, Liberal Democrats offend stay at home moms. When our economic system makes staying at home so difficult, why do feminist busybodies have to add stupid social pressures? Such is their nature; their joy is to offend and manipulate, at least that is the way it seems to me.

Hence I am not surprised NoOneOfAnyImport has some anger to get out of her system — which she does in her post. However, that’s not the part that makes that post interesting. What is particularly good is in the latter half of her post. She speaks of what motivates her to stay at home.

Why do feminists reject the traditional homemaker? Do feminist busybodies hate children? I do not know. There have been times I wished my lady worked outside the home, but I much more prize what my lady gave of herself to our children.

KingShamus tackles the importance of motherhood in this comment, and that’s starts a little debate I wish had lasted longer. Instead of worrying about the best way to offend feminists, we need to disown their solutions. Before we worry about some idiot’s “ism”, we need to consider what is best for our children.

Have we lost sense of wonder that comes with giving birth, the realization that a child is gift. When we raise children, we mature and gain a better understanding of our own souls. In time we learn the most important things we will ever do we do for our children. With the imprint we leave on a child, we leave our mark. We help to save or damn generations of souls to come.

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Freedom, by the way

I, too, enjoyed No One’s post. I do think the pendulum started swinging back. In the 80’s women were told we could “have it all.” But most of us realized that having it all came at a price. I was pursuing an excellent career and waited until my late 30’s to become a mother. When I was pregnant, I had every intention of continuing in my current position–which involved a lot of overnight travel, often for being gone for a week at a time. But when I held my son and cared for him the first few weeks after giving birth, I realized I would be insane to give his care over someone else for so much of the time. God blessed me with a part-time position so I could spend as much time as possible raising our son. I truly believe that parenting is the most important profession of mothers and fathers. However, I do not begrudge those professional women who do not make the choice to stay at home. I know many of them live with guilt, but due to a number of reasons continue to work full-time. I think if the parents are devoted, they can raise their children successfully whether or not a parent is home with them –but it takes a lot more stamina than many parents are willing to give. However, whatever decision parents make regarding to daycare or not, no one should be reviled because of their decision. The feminists have proven they have no merit when they joined in the ridicule of “working mom” Sarah Palin and when they side with the progressives who are stragely silent about the horrible treatment of women in the Islamic world.

Well said, Freedom, and our experiences seem similiar. I too thought I’d get back to my career, definitely by the time my first was a year old.

LOL.

Thanks for the link Tom, and your thoughtful additions. You are right, Shamus’ comment was awesome. I had planned to repost it on it’s own b/c it’s that good. Maybe I’ll get to it, but it’s been eventful around here.

My purpose in “giving offense” to feminists, however, isn’t really to offend them. It’s to reaffirm the validity of my own choices, and to reaffirm my right to say what I want about lifes choices without having to worry about whether I’ll offend folks with my unPC views. In short, it’s a declaration of freedom.

That anyone chooses to feel offended is so there problem not mine, and that’s what makes it enjoyable.

When people speak of absolute truth and try to define right and wrong in black and white terms, they have that right. Nonetheless, what is clear to some is far muddier — gray — to others. Should a mother stay at home? Sometimes, but always? Is there one right answer that suits everyone? Isn’t the glory of liberty the fact we have the right to decide most such things for ourselves?

Unfortunately, there have always been those who would deny others their liberty. Why? I suppose there is no one reason, but we do share one thing in common. None of us are good. So when we each examine the alternatives that come our way we guiltily fret over our motives. What is the right choice? How do we resolve the uncertainty? No matter what we decide, it seems we must always wonder if we decided appropriately. So when someone else decides differently and appears to take pride in their choice, we feel indicted, and we tend to become defensive.

The busybody is not content defend his or her own choice. The busybody must go on the offensive. Supposedly to protect the rights of children, the poor, the old, women , minority races, and so forth, the busybody works to impose his or her choice upon others. Hence we get tyrannical leaders masking themselves in a Liberal guise.

Words From The Past

As I have said, there are two points or two characteristics of the Radical programme which it is your special duty to resist. One concerns the freedom of individuals. After all, the great characteristic of this country is that it is a free country, and by a free country I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. That is not my notion of freedom.

Speech to the third annual banquet of the Kingston and District Working Men's Conservative Association (13 June, 1883).

'The Marquis Of Salisbury At Kingston', The Times (14 June 1883), p. 7.